Olivia Dunham is a fictional character and the main protagonist from the science fiction television series Fringe, which aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States from 2008 to 2013. As she was removed from the tank, she lied, telling Walternate the test did not work. Fringe Episode 2.22 Scene - Peter and Olivia - The Kiss gillybabies 7.12K subscribers Subscribe 1.1K 341K views 12 years ago Olivia tells Peter why needs to come back with her she seals it. She ends up in a short coma and wakes up in an incoherent state and in shock. Wyman", "Vacation Robo-Post: Great Performances of 2010", "AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters", "Teen Choice Awards: Complete list of winners", "Nominations for the 37th Annual Saturn Awards". Shortly after reuniting, the pair discover that their relationship in the other universe never existed and Olivia has a new lover, Lincoln Lee. Only upon finding evidence linking her current case (a virus that caused orifices to seal over) to Jones would she be able to speak with Jones. There was not one single universe in which Lincoln and Olivia were not part of each other's lives in some capacity. She left and regrouped with him, but in a side alley, was alerted by her phone that Massive Dynamic's analysis of the first device was completed, and revealed Charlie as the shapeshifter. When she was finally able to locate Lane, however, he threatened to commit suicide by jumping off a building (with the many people who had followed him) unless she shot him dead. What's interesting about this show is that in many ways, Olivia has the masculine role, and the two guys are the women. Peter comforted her. There, Max thanked Olivia personally and asked her about what the "FBI" was, as she had said it when she saved him. "[27], The producers discussed cutting her hair, but ultimately decided on the auburn hair color to differentiate her. Olivia was able to stand up against her past fears and stop their advance. However, Sam had disappeared and could not be found. To prepare Olivia, they used the quantum entangled Selectric typewriter that the shapeshifters had used to contact the parallel universe. Olivia met Lincoln Lee, who she had never previously met in this timeline when his partner was killed by a shapeshifter. Olivia adopted Ella, presumably after her parents' deaths. [10] She is captured and drugged, brainwashed into believing that she is the alternate Olivia, complete with traits such as superb marksmanship skills which prime-universe Olivia did not possess. Though still cautious about moving forward, Olivia and Peter kissed and headed to the bedroom upstairs at the Bishops' home after she arrived for drinks. Agent Olivia Dunham is an FBI special agent and multiagency DHS liaison recruited by Philip Broyles to be part of a secret task force within the FBI known as Fringe Division. As a back-up plan, the two travelled to Walternate's long abandoned lab at Harvard to use the sensory deprivation tank. Etta was reunited with Peter, Walter, and Astrid, who had been encased in amber. For me, Lincoln and Olivia were Fringe 's OTP. Knowing that. Olivia later discovered that Peter had tried to touch the machine, but was sent flying by an electrical spark. He had decided to open up to her and shows her the five data discs from the shapeshifters he killed after the doomsday device weaponized him. The nurse attempted to kill Olivia, but fled after being shot by Agent Jessop. Olive and "Dr. Walter" at the daycare facility in Jacksonville, 1985. Yes, the Olivias seemed destined to carry a torch for Peter, even when Peter was blinked out of existence but Lincoln was there to help Olivia solve cases, deal with her losses, and just generally be the best partner he could possibly be. Every version of Lincoln and Olivia could have had it all (and at least one of them did), and here are 11 reasons why they were Fringe 's best couple. ("The Day We Died"). [8] Having left her universe moving at a high speed, she returns at the same speed, crashing through the windshield of her now stationary car, leaving her in an almost fatal condition. They defied the odds, and crossed over to other universes just so at least one version of them could grow old together. This was the same test as the previous timeline with the lightbox but this time he wanted her to turn the lights on instead of off. ("Ability"). They believe that Olivia is the alternate version - Charlie tells Lincoln that she has lost her mind. She turned to face Peter, revealing herself to now be possessed by Bell. At Nina's recommendation, Olivia meets with Sam Weiss, who works at a bowling alley. At the 2009 Australians in Film Awards, Torv won the Breakthrough Award. A photograph of Olivia as a teenager with Nina Sharp in the alternate timeline in Nina's office. As he discussed it with her, Olivia heard the sound of a bell. ("6955 kHz"). Olivia suggested the possibility that the effect is due to quantum entanglement between Alice in the prime universe and Derek in the parallel one. Walter first put Olivia under heavy sedation, and she experienced meeting her younger, frightened self, but was still unable to trigger her ability. Olivia's hallucination of Peter pointed out to her that there was a way to tell if she was from the prime universe: by confirming her memories of her seven-year-old niece Ella, who did not survive birth in the parallel universe. I think each of them sees things in the other they'd like to have. After talking to Rachel about her sister, Peter visited Olivia, who was scheduled to be taken off life support the following morning. [32] The producers were so pleased with her Fauxlivia depiction that they thought "it really opened up a bunch of possibilities it went from 'let's see if this experiment works' to 'how can we get more of this? Olivia and Peter got married. Broyles, having listened to Olivia's conversation, knew in that moment that she had broken her conditioning, as the FBI had ceased to exist years earlier in the parallel universe. He then suddenly disappeared. The building, a hotel, is quickly identified from the list of candidates, and it is evacuated in time, moments before it is pulled into the parallel universe. [43] In a 2010 list, Time Magazine's James Poniewozik called Torv's performance one of television's best of the year. The two were able to finally begin (or rather continue) their relationship together. Meanwhile, the Fringe Division was falsely told that their Olivia had escaped. Although initially finding their conversations useless, he cured Olivia's inability to walk without a cane. Olivia dealt with Roland, a man who became enamored with the deceased Amanda at depression counseling meetings and tried to revive her. Harris instead instructed Dunham to raid a warehouse along with Charlie Francis and several others. [25] Olivia was in a relationship with Peter after they mended things in episode 6B, but shortly after that Peter built a bridge wiping himself from existence, causing Olivia to forget who he was. He was then placed into an indefinite coma by the FBI. One of the best additions to this universe has been Lincoln. ("Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"). She proved to be the greatest success and demonstrated a number of abilities after receiving the drug, including telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and the ability to cross safely between universes momentarily. As a result, Olivia is capable of unspecified psychic abilities, as demonstrated when she shuts off a series of lights wired into a bomb as a kill switch simply by thinking it. Henry removed the tracker from his taxi, having become sympathetic towards Olivia. After Etta's death Olivia is mournful and grows apart from Peter, however after he tries to harness observer technology to avenge Etta's death Olivia talks him into abandoning his plan and the two becomes close again. Jones was intrigued by Dunham. First Appearance He explained, " in the dual role of Olivia/Fauxlivia, Torv absolutely came into her own this year. Olivia apparently loses her memories of her meeting with Bell and whatever information he may have told her. "[19] She is a loner and dedicates almost all of her time to her work. When Olivia finds and confides in Walter himself, he empathizes with her and threatens her stepfather Randall with a call to social services as well as the loss of financial support from the trial ("Subject 13"). On a Fringe case, mathematician savant Milo Stanfield led Olivia on a chase through a construction area including a marked zone where the air is too thin, expecting to crush her under a load of cement bricks. Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep? The Olivias and Walters cautiously agreed that they needed to put aside their differences to save both worlds, completely unaware of Peter's disappearance. After a brief fight for her life, Olivia shot and killed the shapeshifter. As they travelled by zeppelin, William tried to encourage Walter that he no longer needs Bell's guidance. Sam helped her work through it by giving her a "project" that required her to collect business cards from people wearing the color red. After sharing their first kiss, Olivia and Peter are separated for 8 episodes. Dunham was clear of the blast, but Scott had been directly in the middle of the explosion and was put into a coma to slow skin degeneration similar to the degeneration seen on the passengers of Flight 627. Walter and William believe that they have less than a day before Olivia's mind will be lost. Upon interrogating Steig, Dunham discovers that John Scott had been speaking to Steig before the 627 incident, and had even been threatening him. Though the Fringe Division that developed in this universe had been able to use amber to contain these vortices, a group called the "End of Dayers", led by a man named Moreau attempted to breach the fabric of reality at soft spots and create more vortices. Olivia's is close to her sister Rachel, and Rachel's daughter Ella. Olivia. He survived the shooting and disappeared after his recovery. ("Safe"). ("6B"), Sometime later, Peter and Olivia's relationship began to improve. The couple that kicks butt together stays together. [42] TV Guide called it one of the best performances of the year, explaining "Switching Olivia with her alternate-universe self jump-started the show's interpersonal dynamics and changed the way we look at Torv. ("A New Day In The Old Town"), Having recovered enough from the events of the previous episode, Olivia was released from the hospital, and was watched by the shapeshifter who had killed Charlie Francis and adopted his appearance. Olivia in the Peter-less universe was adopted as a child along with her sister by Nina Sharpe whom she considers a surrogate mother. He revealed that she had been injected with a drug called Cortexiphan that was created by Massive Dynamic, however, that would give her the ability to complete the test, which involved telekinetically extinguishing a board of electric lights. ("Inner Child"), Soon afterward, Olivia helped to track down a mysterious beast after it attacked her friend Charlie Francis, finding it just in time to save Charlie from the monster's larvae which were growing inside him. After using bluffing and blackmail, Dunham enlisted the younger Bishop's help, and together they went to see the elder Bishop in the institution. Olivia Dunham is being held in a secret facility located beneath the Statue of Liberty. Yes, in the fourth season of Fringe, Peter and Olivia reunite. Immortality: Directed by Brad Anderson. He also gave her an ambering device should she be compromised by the Observers. This division is where she spearheads various paranormal events related to The Pattern, alongside civil consultant Peter Bishop and his father, Dr. Walter Bishop. Henry, after watching Charlie's car pull away, drove off on his own. So Anna had to listen to all these people saying 'She's really doing nothing,' when really it was our issue. Olivia passed out when Walter clanged a bell to begin the process of Rebecca telling them more about this. At first skeptical, Peter soon accepted her into his life. This is confirmed when Simon Phillips, a mindreader, leaves Olivia with a message that Peter still has feelings for Fauxlivia. While working on the case, Dunham began to suspect that Mitchell Loeb was involved, and immediately went to search his house, eventually getting into a standoff and killing Samantha Loeb. Inside Olivia's mind, Walter and Peter found they stood out as invaders, and the people that populate her mind, including a vision of her step-father, seek to stop them. FBI Special Agent When they arrived at the station, Olivia ordered Henry to drive away, and managed to fire at a small valve on a gas tank, allowing the explosion to cover their trail. She revealed the news to Peter. Bell was using the Cortexiphan children to try and collapse both universes to create his own universe where he could play God. Olivia also mentions that Fauxlivia "kidnapped" her. Olivia watches Peter merge the two universes. ("Ability"), Dunham returned to work soon afterward, and was called in to a case where a small boy had been found in a sealed underground tunnel. Olivia escapes to Walternate's lab in Harvard. He explained this to a heartbroken Olivia, who firmly believed that she was "his" Olivia. Following a plot line in the second season, viewers are introduced to Olivia's doppelgnger from the parallel universe, which develops an alternate reality for each character. Agent Olivia Dunham is an FBI special agent and multiagency DHS liaison recruited by Philip Broyles to be part of a secret task force within the FBI known as Fringe Division. After the final reset, Olivia and Peter were happily sitting in the park watching Etta play. William and Peter safely landed in Jacksonville, and Peter directed them to find the home among the military housing where Olivia stayed at as a child, marked by a red-painted door by her birth-father. I think Olivia would like to not feel everything is her responsibility. Unable to stop it and her love for Peter, Olivia begged Nina to hold on to their relationship, no matter what were to happen to her memories. She works with Etta until Etta is murdered. She is trapped in the alternate universe by Walternate, Walter's alternative self, while Fauxlivia replaces her in the prime universe. ("Unleashed"), Olivia soon began having trouble sleeping, eventually beginning to believe that she was killing people in her dreams after seeing people from her dreams cross over into her real life. Olivia and Peter as children in the field of white tulips. They may not have been Fringe's primary love story, but in my universe their love was the star of the show. 1. ("Pilot") Olivia, unaware of the warning signs for the zone, instead raced through it instead of stopping to put on a respirator, nearly asphyxiating herself, and dodged the bricks in time to capture Milo. During the case, Dunham discovered that her affair with Scott was not as secret as she had once thought, and she begins to question her entire relationship with Scott. I loved Lincoln Lee on the other side, but this Lincoln has become integral to the team. 96 Walter, in a desperate plea, crossed over to save him, despite Nina's attempts to stop him. The good news is, Anna's new and more animated Olivia isn't really a departure so much as it is a character who seems to have had a catharsis. ("Ability") Olivia proved to be the most capable and strongest of all the test subject children. Olivia recognized that her emotions were her strength in the fight against the Observers and was able to act as Peter's rock when he began to slip away from his humanity by putting the Observer tech in his own head. There was no version of Olivia Dunham that Lincoln Lee did not think was a brilliant, amazing woman. An experiment by Dr. Bishop to link her to the dying John Scott's mind in order to learn what he knew about his condition results in Olivia gaining part of his consciousness, causing her mind to begin integrating and purging the foreign consciousness. Critically acclaimed for an evolving storyline, Olivia has highlighted determination and focus as her main traits, according to Abrams. It is confirmed by Broyles that Olivia's captivity in the alternate universe took place over a period of two months. With the help of the alternate universe's Agent Broyles, she is able to escape from custody and make it to alternate Walter's Harvard lab, where she uses the tank to return to her own universe. When he opens the letter, he pulls out the drawing of the white tulip as referenced from Season 2. Olivia began to develop super-hearing as a result of crossing to the parallel universe, and heard someone else in a house when on a case despite the man insisting he was the only one there. With their remaining guardian deceased, she and Rachel were supposed to be sent into foster care, but Nina Sharp used her influence to have them placed under her care. She broke the cure Walter planned to use to cure Peter, so Walter had to return home with Peter of the Alternate Universe. 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